Another Saturday, Another Meme: Movie Quotes
You know, I'm pretty certain that I used to go out on Saturday nights and hear music, see movies, maybe take in a play...you know in the distant past of OH LAST MONTH. Oh well, you guys seem to be stuck with me again this week. In a RADICAL DEPARTURE I have elected to post a MEME! (SHOCKING, I KNOW!) At least it's not more lyrics...
Here are some (possibly) memorable quotes from twenty of my favorite films. I don't know that they are my definitive top twenty but they are all fine films. If you know or would like to guess the film, feel free. I'm afraid these are probably all laughably easy but you can feel superior and all. Bonus points if you can ID the speaker(s) as well. Googling the quotes is REALLY lame and none of you are lame.
ETA: Unclaimed quotes revealed. FWIW I am not at ALL surprised that 12 and 17 went unguessed, 12 was made in 1934 and 17 is from an oft-forgotten Coen Brothers film but I honestly thought that 11 would be totes obvious. Ladies and Gentleman, Annie Hall!
1) You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Princess Bride guessed by pocky_slash
2) I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once.
The Lion in Winter guessed by ancarett
3) The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat.
The Brothers Bloom guessed by gyzym
(If you haven't seen it do yourself a favor and go find it this weekend!)
A teaser...
4) Well if anyone would know you were pulling your hips out early it'd be Annie.
Bull Durham guessed by ancarett
5) I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon.
The Philadelphia Story guessed by pocky_slash
(Note: It was SO HARD to choose a quote from this movie. I wanted to quote the whole damned script!)
6) Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?
Shaun of the Dead guessed by pocky_slash
7) If I can't have you, can I have my gator?
The Big Easy guessed by vickita
8) If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.
Reds guessed by sabriel75
9) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird guessed by sabriel75
10) Do you love him, Loretta?
Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Oh, God, that's too bad.
Moonstruck guessed by vickita
11) ...and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, 'Doc, uh, my brother's crazy, he thinks he's a chicken,' and uh, the doctor says, 'Well why don't you turn him in?' And the guy says, 'I would, but I need the eggs.' Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and - but uh, I guess we keep going through it...because...most of us need the eggs.
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall
12) I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
Nick (William Powell) & Nora (Myrna Loy) Charles in The Thin Man
13) There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
Bedazzled guessed by sabriel75
14) I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
When Harry Met Sally guessed by valancy_joy
15) This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
Brazil guessed by kel_reiley
16) Get busy living, or get busy dying.
The Shawshank Redemption guessed by solsticezero & valancy_joy
17) You think you've raised hell.
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!
Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) and Tom (Gabriel Byrne) from Miller's Crossing
18) Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me - cold fish.
Blade Runner guessed by chn_breathmint
19) Pushy Americans, always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!
Chicken Run guessed by blue_fjords
20) I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness.
But they were all written by men.
Persuasion guessed by sabriel75
Here are some (possibly) memorable quotes from twenty of my favorite films. I don't know that they are my definitive top twenty but they are all fine films. If you know or would like to guess the film, feel free. I'm afraid these are probably all laughably easy but you can feel superior and all. Bonus points if you can ID the speaker(s) as well. Googling the quotes is REALLY lame and none of you are lame.
ETA: Unclaimed quotes revealed. FWIW I am not at ALL surprised that 12 and 17 went unguessed, 12 was made in 1934 and 17 is from an oft-forgotten Coen Brothers film but I honestly thought that 11 would be totes obvious. Ladies and Gentleman, Annie Hall!
1) You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Princess Bride guessed by pocky_slash
2) I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once.
The Lion in Winter guessed by ancarett
3) The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat.
The Brothers Bloom guessed by gyzym
(If you haven't seen it do yourself a favor and go find it this weekend!)
A teaser...
Click to view4) Well if anyone would know you were pulling your hips out early it'd be Annie.
Bull Durham guessed by ancarett
5) I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon.
The Philadelphia Story guessed by pocky_slash
(Note: It was SO HARD to choose a quote from this movie. I wanted to quote the whole damned script!)
6) Who died and made you fucking king of the zombies?
Shaun of the Dead guessed by pocky_slash
7) If I can't have you, can I have my gator?
The Big Easy guessed by vickita
8) If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.
Reds guessed by sabriel75
9) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird guessed by sabriel75
10) Do you love him, Loretta?
Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Oh, God, that's too bad.
Moonstruck guessed by vickita
11) ...and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, 'Doc, uh, my brother's crazy, he thinks he's a chicken,' and uh, the doctor says, 'Well why don't you turn him in?' And the guy says, 'I would, but I need the eggs.' Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and - but uh, I guess we keep going through it...because...most of us need the eggs.
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall
12) I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
Nick (William Powell) & Nora (Myrna Loy) Charles in The Thin Man
13) There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
Bedazzled guessed by sabriel75
14) I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
When Harry Met Sally guessed by valancy_joy
15) This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
Brazil guessed by kel_reiley
16) Get busy living, or get busy dying.
The Shawshank Redemption guessed by solsticezero & valancy_joy
17) You think you've raised hell.
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!
Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) and Tom (Gabriel Byrne) from Miller's Crossing
18) Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me - cold fish.
Blade Runner guessed by chn_breathmint
19) Pushy Americans, always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!
Chicken Run guessed by blue_fjords
20) I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness.
But they were all written by men.
Persuasion guessed by sabriel75